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Three women peace-builders from Northern Ireland, Colombia and Sri Lanka criticized what they called the U.S.’s simple-minded approach to terrorism at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum last night...
...sides [must] recognize that no further political gain can be made through violence,” said Monica McWilliams, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. “If you don’t recognize the causes that the other side has...you’re not truly negotiating...
...illustrate her point, McWilliams told a story about meeting President Bush on St. Patrick’s Day last year, at the traditional White House party for those working for peace in Northern Ireland...
...said that when she spoke to the President about the forgiveness that had to occur in Northern Ireland, he responded, “Forgive? I’ll never forgive those people in Afghanistan...
McWilliams said she told the President that none of his guests that day would have been there if the people in Northern Ireland had made such a generalization...